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A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

It's the stuff drawer. Why are you like this?

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

The problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?

I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven't used in a year or two.

Pretty much every house i cooked at i found an equivalent of this drawer, even when they did other things differently. Maybe with the exception of my girlfriend, she's freakishly organized, but she has one massive drawer that includes silverware where somehow all the weird crap fits and it's organized,

Edit: I lied, I looked at her drawer again today, she has a subsection for random cluttered shit

There isn’t a house in existence that doesn’t have one of these. All houses that exist have one of these by celestial mandate.

The only reason I don't have such a drawer, is an overall lack of drawers in my house, don't really have one to spare to be a junk drawer.

Which is a damn shame because I could really use a drawer to throw some miscellaneous odds and hands that don't have any other designated place to live.

Correct, we have this drawer. And what sucks is that it has been broken for about 20 years.

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

It's the one where everything is oddly shaped and can't stack easily.

We don't have one, we have multiple

My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

I have no drawers but at least one box per room for this purpose

Your junk drawer game is weak. We have 3 of them in the kitchen and the least bad of them is worse than that.

It's more of a "Junk Drawer" in my family. Just for things that have no relevant places or are easily categorized, but are important enough not to keep somewhere more out of the way. Always contains at least one item that makes it near impossible to open the drawer on first pull and requires manipulation to open. For my family, it's usually a hammer.

We had one when I grew up. Now that I'm living elsewhere with my own family we don't; we have two.

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

Everyone has that, except for my parents, its not just a drawer, but the entire basement floor. Filled. With. Junk.

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My work does one of those round robin steal it gift exchanges. One of my coworkers would just dump her junk drawer into a bag. It had the best stuff!

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

I have several. It takes a few months before the order becomes chaos. I do know where to find my stuff though.

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

No drawer. Probably due to the kitchen layout, we don't have smaller drawers, so the tools and such go into their own container.

How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

I have one and my parents have one

Every kitchen has this, but I'd work on your layout. You could put about 50% more gadgets in there.

Also, store the scale vertically somewhere for maximum efficiency

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

Yep.

im afraid that everyone has the forbidden drawer. the drawer that should never be opened except as a last ditch effort to find that one appliance that seems to elude you in every other drawer. you can try to destroy the drawer, but it will always come back in some form.

I have whole cabinets like this

My wife got snap apart customizable drawer organizers and it's a big difference. She showed me the way.

I do have it.